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century and a half, supplemented in Maryland with hemp and flax ; 

 taxes were paid in tobacco, and rent in kind. In Illinois and Canada, 

 skins and furs, with wampum for small coin; in New England the 

 latter singular currency was used far into the eighteenth century. 

 New South Wales has the demerit of inventing the destructive 

 medium of rum; wages were paid in it or in wheat; meal or spirits 

 were taken at the doors of theaters. Store receipts for produce were 

 given by the Government and passed current, not without deprecia- 

 tion; military officers issued bills for all sums up to one hundred 

 pounds; private individuals, in the lack of specie, gave promissory 

 notes. Fixed prices were long unknown; extortioners in the early 

 days of all the colonies made a profit of a thousand per cent; and in 

 quite recent days usurious attorneys exacted interest at the rate of a 

 hundred per cent. 



Colonies sometimes anticipate the development of the mother 

 country. The communistic dreams of the forties in France and 

 England were for a brief while realized in old Virginia, as they are at 

 this hour being realized in the village settlements of South Australia; 

 and the state socialism rendered popular by the German victories 

 of 1870 was perhaps more thoroughly embodied in convict New 

 South Wales than anywhere else outside of Peru under the Incas, 

 as it is now sweeping all of the Australasian colonies onward to an 

 unknown goal. 



THE MIND'S EYE. 



By JOSEPH JASTKOW. 



Hamlet. — My father, — Methinks, I see my father. 

 Horatio. — 0, where, my lord ? 

 Hamlet. — In my mind's eye, Horatio. 



IT is a commonplace taught from nursery to university that we 

 see with our eyes, hear with our ears, and feel with the fingers. 

 This is the truth, but not the whole truth. Indispensable as are the 

 sense organs in gaining an acquaintance with the world in which we 

 live, yet they alone do not determine how extensive or how accurate 

 that acquaintance shall be. There is a mind behind the eye and 

 the ear and the finger tips which guides them in gathering in- 

 formation, and gives value and order to the exercise of the senses. 

 This is particularly true of vision, the most intellectual of all the 

 senses, the one in which mere acuteness of the sense organ counts 

 least and the training in observation counts most. The eagle's eye 

 sees farther, but our eyes tell us much more of what is seen. 



The eye is often compared to a photographic camera, with its 



